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Improving health professionals’ communication skills : a major global endeavour
No full textGrowth and the phenomenon of Mainland China Mainland China is a country where the statistics about human activity and volume of services are breathtaking. To give a sense of the staggering nature of the size of this rapid economic expanding country is to realise the level of hospitals and clinics numbers rose to more than 320,000 with over 1.97 million doctors at the end of the last decade. The ratio of 15 doctors per 10,000 persons compares with the USA of 25 per 10,000 [1] http://www.chinatoday.com/data/data.htm. Changes within Chinese society are remarkable with the ability to communicate among citizens improving enormously with nearly half a billion cell-phone users and similar internet reach (2010 figures) and rapidly growing. There has been dramatic change in the organisation of health services in mainland China as shown by the strength of purpose to establish a public health insurance scheme for the large majority of the population. The challenges of organising health in this huge country is not without precendence of course as there are disparities between the cities and rural areas in accessibility to health care and the changes in treatable infectitious diseases to more chronic life-style illnesses such as diabetes and obesity. Hospital care in particular has seen some de-coupling from central public funding. Financial survival of these health care services is dependent on medical investigations and treatments. Accusations of over-treatment have been common threads of media coverage in the past few years in Chinese newpapers. Doctors and other health care workers feel under valued and under pressure from a public who have raised expectations. This wide scenario is common with others in the western world where complaints and litigation have inexorably risen to unprecedented levels. However the situation in China is exacerbated by the rapidity of changes within the health care system and their wider society. Additional factors are linked to a low base of formal training of communication skills within China’s Medical Schools. An example is the fact that this educational input focussing on health care interaction with the patient is often optional for undergraduate students. An important phenomenon with mainland China are the cultural changes that have occurred within society who have relied on the traditional speciality of medicine (known as Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM), with a reliance on early identification of disease and a focused tailoring of intervention upon a detailed assessment. Typically this involves careful attention to person-centred variables, not least the belief structure of the individual seeking advice and intervention. The TCM approach has been advocated for combining with classical western medicine to attempt to get the best of both spheres of influence to cooperate towards a unified system. This has proved to be elusive, but the reasons for lack of integration are meaningful when attempting to explain the lack of attention to doctor patient interaction in a modern hospital and clinic settings.Peer reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dual metal gate process scheme for wide range work function modulation and reduced Fermi level pinning
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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